Eduardo Marques
Trustee 2012-2019
Eduardo Marques is professor at the Department of Political Science (DCP) and Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he develops investigations on public policies, social inequalities, especially in urban contexts. He holds a degree in Civil/Hydraulic Engineering (UFRJ), specialization in public health (Fiocruz), MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (UFRJ), PhD in Social Sciences (Unicamp), and a post-doctorate (Cebrap), with longer research periods at Sciences Po Paris, University College London and University of California Berkeley. He is one of the editors of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), a member of the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review, and a principal investigator at Fapesp and a CNPq Scholar. He has authored many articles and books about urban politics and politics, more recently “The Politics of Incremental Progressivism Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in São Paulo (Wiley/SUSC-IJURR, 2021).
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Judit Bodnar
Trustee 2012-2019
Judit Bodnar is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University in Vienna, formerly in Budapest. Author of Fin-de-Millénaire Budapest (Minnesota) and co-editor of Critical Urban Studies (Budapest: L’Harmattan), she has written about public space, housing forms, (post)socialist urbanity, gentrification, comparative thinking, the sharing economy, globalization, and the politics of food. She is co-editor of the journal Critical Historical Studies (University of Chicago Press).
Paula Meth
Trustee 2010-2017
Paula Meth is a Professor of Southern Urbanism at the University of Glasgow. She researches everyday life primarily in the urban global south, with a focus on the social-spatial intersections of changing urban spaces. Paula’s approach to research is collaborative, working with teams of researchers based across the world. Her current and recent research projects focus on the politics of citizenship for state housing beneficiaries in South Africa, India and China; understanding the evidence / policy interface relating to rapid urbanisation in former South African homelands; and UK-Somali transnationalism. Previous projects include the lived experiences of change in African urban peripheries, the youth, work / housing nexus, and gender and housing change. She is lead author of the book ‘Living the urban peripheries’ (2024, Manchester University Press) and of various journal articles. Paula is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, and co-lead of the Safety and Security Domain, part of the African Cities Research Consortium.
Fulong Wu
Trustee 2010-2015
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London. His research interests include urban development in China and its social and sustainable challenges. He is the author of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China (Routledge, 2015), Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Change (UCL Press, 2022, free downloadable from the publisher’s website, www.uclpress.co.uk/ChineseUrbanism), co-editor (with Roger Keil) of After Suburbia: Urbanization in the 21st Century (Toronto University Press, 2022) and co-editor (with Fangzhu Zhang) of Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance (Edward Elgar 2023). His recent co-authored book is Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies (with Professor Fangzhu Zhang, Routledge, 2025).
He was former editor of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant – Rethinking China’s Model of Urban Governance.
Matthew Gandy
Trustee 2010-2013
Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and an award-winning documentary film maker. He previously worked at University College London where he was founder and first director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. He has published articles in many leading journals including IJURR, New Left Review, and Society and Space. His books include Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016), and Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022). He is currently working on zoonotic aspects to urban epidemiology as part of a wider conceptual framing for the multispecies city.
Patrick Le Galès
Trustee 2009-2016
Patrick Le Galès is CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) Research Professor of sociology, politics and urban studies at Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He is currently working on the comparison of modes of governance and urban development (What is governed and not governed? ) in Paris, London, Sao Paolo, Mexico (with Eduardo Marques, Mike Raco, Vicente Ugalde) and now Rome and Hong Kong. He has recently completed a comparative research project on financialization and housing in Paris, London and Amsterdam (with Mike Raco and Tuna Tasan Kok). He also works on transnational mobility and urban class making, “French in London, English in Paris”.
He was the editor of the International Journal of Urban and regional Research (1998-2005), the president of SASE (Society for Advanced Socio economics), the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School (2015-2022). He is a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a member of the Academia Europea, and the French Académie de Technologies. He is a co-editor of the European Journal of Sociology. Recent publications include Reconfigurating european states in crisis (ed. with D. King), OUP, 2017) ; Gobernando la ciudad de méxico. Lo que se gobierna y lo que no se gobierna en una gran metrópoli , Mexico (with V. Ugalde), Colejio de Mexico 2017; The Handbook of comparative global urban studies( with J.Robinson), Routlege 2024; La metropole Parisienne; une anarchie organisée, (with Francesca Artioli,) Presses de Sciences Po, 2024.